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can you elaborate on what you mean by passing it around? you’ll need to reference the provider somehow

are you referring to the terraform behaviour of interpolating all files in a directory? Pulumi doesn’t do that

<@UCWG26BH7> Thanks for the prompt reply. So my default region for aws is `eu-west-2` and I needed to create some resources a few months ago in `us-west-2`. So I created a new provider and set the region. Now I need to add some more resources to `us-west-2` . How do I get this provider from the current stack?

I can't just use the local variable because it's in a different file

previously I did
```let provider = new aws.Provider(`default-us-west-2`, {
    region: 'us-west-2'
});```
So need to get `default-us-west-2` from the stack!?

ah, then export the variable

`export const provider = new aws.provider`

add an import into the place you want to use it

```import * from as westprovider from "./providerfile"```
And then you can reference it as

```westprovider.provider```

is that the only way? I would have thought you could get resources from the stack. Like you can with `aws.secretsmanager.getSecret()`

that calls the API of AWS, you can’t `get` a provider

having said that, there’s absolute no downside to just creating another provider, you can create as many as you like

Yeah it will soon get messy though, I think I'll create a Providers class which keeps static references. This will be tidier than creating lots of providers the same with different names.

Thank-you for your time